Portland Police Chief Mike Reese defends his decision to demote, not fire, Todd Wyatt: Portland Chief Mike Reese said yesterday that he didn't consider complaints by women employees that a captain was inappropriately touching them to be "sexual in nature." So he initially had no problem demoting Todd Wyatt to lieutenant and moving him from leading the Records Division to a role supervising sex assault investigators in the Detective Division, Maxine Bernstein reports. Maxine details the allegations against Wyatt, his reaction, and his history of infractions in another great story about turmoil at PPB.

Schnitzer Steel to move Portland headquarters to downtown KOIN Center: Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. said yesterday it will move its Portland headquarters to the downtown KOIN Center, vacating leased space in two industrial Northwest Portland buildings, Elliot Njus reports. The scrap metal company will lease one and a half floors in the 35-story tower, which is owned by Portland-based American Pacific International Capital. The move will bring hundreds of employees downtown.

Speaking of, Mike Rogoway questions: As Portland startups grow, does the city have room? Urban Airship needs a bigger hangar, Mike writes. The four-year-old company has outgrown its cramped Pearl District headquarters -- and like other fast-growing Portland startups, it's struggling to find space in the city.

From 'Stumptown' beginnings, Portland's urban forest named one of top 10 in the country: Portland's urban forest is among the top 10 in the nation, according to an American Forests report released Tuesday. Efforts to plant trees over one-third of the city and to maintain a healthy population of existing trees earned a top-10 spot for "Stumptown" -- Portland's nickname when its landscape was overly logged and treeless. Read my story yesterday, in which city forester Jenn Cairo talks about why Portland's tree-friendliness is important.

Closed Mic: Remembering Portland's Wildest Comedy Night: The Mercury looks back on Suki's Bar and Grill's last comedy open mic in December. Sure, there are plenty of other mics in town, but Suki's, at 2401 S.W. 4th Ave., had become somewhat legendary among both comedians and fans—for better and for worse. It was known as a fun room that could turn brutal.

Portraits of ranch women tell stories of tough cowgirls successful in a man's world: For portraitist Lynda Lanker, there's no better subject than a cowgirl. "Some portrait subjects, you have to wear them out before you see who they really are. With cowgirls, what you see is what you get. For a portrait artist, that's gold," she told me this week. In her current exhibit at the Oregon History Museum, "Tough by Nature," Lanker presents 49 portraits of ranch women depicted in different mediums -- whichever best captures their character, she says. Read about her mediums and subjects in yesterday's story.